Sci/Tech The baby seat with iPad attachment: Shameful or honest?

[FireCat]

A petition is launched to have Fisher-Price's bouncy seat with built-in iPad attachment recalled. But why shouldn't we prepare our young for the future as early as possible?

Kid, I want to tell you about your future.

You'll be glued to a screen. Your fingers will be tap-tap-tapping to give you entertainment, enjoyment and employment. And when your screen is taken away from you, you'll cry like a baby. Some people don't want to believe this. These are the people who are ragingly raising their arms at a new baby bounce seat that has an iPad attachment, so that baby can begin the process of pushing buttons on a screen.

It's made by Fisher-Price and it retails for a mere $80. Its full title is "Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity Seat for iPad®." As the Los Angeles Times reports, a petition has been launched to have all these baby seats burned at the stake. I exaggerate slightly. However, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood wants you to sign its petition to encourage Fisher-Price to recall the product.

The campaign offers: "Because screens can be mesmerizing and babies are strapped down and 'safely' restrained, it encourages parents to leave infants all alone with an iPad. To make matters even worse, Fisher-Price is marketing the Apptivity Seat -- and claiming it's educational -- for newborns."

The baby seat with iPad attachment: Shameful or honest?

A petition is launched to have Fisher-Price's bouncy seat with built-in iPad attachment recalled. But why shouldn't we prepare our young for the future as early as possible? By Chris Matyszczyk, CNET Kid, I want to tell you about your … Continue reading →

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[Eyonix]

Amazing! You can start neglecting your children and buying them things they shouldn't have to feel like a good parent for not spending time with them, from an even younger age! Go America!

 

[Accname]

Amazing! You can start neglecting your children and buying them things they shouldn't have to feel like a good parent for not spending time with them, from an even younger age! Go America!

The seat has nothing to do with it. You could do all of this before.
This is just the monetisation of the neglecting behavior of parents. I dont see anything wrong of making a few bucks from the stupidity of others.

 

[FireCat]

I dont see anything wrong of making a few bucks

But the baby "pay the ultimate price!"

 

[Accname]

Babies dont pay anything. They dont own nothing.

 

[FireCat]

Oh, LOL

 

[BlueMirage]

I scrolled and expected to read people complaining that computers are bad for your upbringing and crippling for your future, but for what is probably the first time I can actually agree with a point made by what could be thought of as conservatives. The possibility that giving your baby an iPad will make you spend less time with them (at what is actually an important age) is very real.

 

[Varine]

Welcome to the new age. It's not as if I couldn't go do this before, nor as if parents didn't neglect to spend time with their children anyway. How is this any different than the many hundreds of other seats that have shiny, noise making distractions for baby to play with other than it's designed to have a tablet instead of plastic buttons that go moo?

Besides, giving baby the iPad seems less likely to give parents less incentive to spend with them than giving the parents an iPad, who are then going to look at porn and funny cats and not watch baby. Mom and dad know how to use it - baby just wants bright colors and fun noises to play. Only they already do that and no one is bitching, because after all - baby's seat that goes moo is totally fucking educational (it is of the UTMOST importance that all babies know cows go moo, which they learn about because chances are the moo button has a picture of a cow. In this day and age, technology is completely secondary to basic farming and ranching lessons) and, somehow, magically makes mom and dad want to spend time with baby.

 

[FireCat]

Moo moo.. for a Newborn?

 

[Varine]

As opposed to those oldborns?

 

[FireCat]

Ages 8 and up?!

 

[Varine]

Progeria.